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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:54:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com> To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com> Cc: ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>, Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: RE: bug in cleancache ocfs2 hook, anybody want to try cleancache? > > > Also, as regards your earlier question wrt a kvm backend, I may be > > > tempted to have a go at writing one, but I'd like to figure out what > > > I'm letting myself in for before making any commitment to that, > > > I think the hardest part is updating the tmem.c module in zcache > > to support multiple "clients". When I ported it from Xen, I tore > > all that out. Fortunately, I've put it back in during RAMster > > development but those changes haven't yet seen the light of day > > (though I can share them offlist). > > I'd like to try and understand the design of the existing code before I > consider anything more advanced such as writing a kvm backend, FYI, the "hardest part" (support for multiple clients) is now in Linus's tree as of today. With a little hypercall and glue code, KVM might just work now with tmem/cleancache/frontswap. Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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